Illwinter is ahead of the Computer Science Field by CENTURIES

[AreaOfEffect]

What exactly is meaning though? What exactly is a concept? Isn't it good enough for us to program an AI to act like it understands the meaning of something? Could we know the difference between an AI that understands and one that doesn't if they both act identically the same?

[JimMorrison]

Because true "AI", that is, "Intelligence" can analyze and understand - in order to further learn on its own.

A "Program", on the other hand, no matter how well we design it to mimic an intelligent action, is still just that - a Program - and will not ever learn from its activities.

There is a grey area of pseudo-AI, where a program is designed to define results as positive or negative, and to rebuild its own algorithms in order to behave more efficiently - but it is still doing so only within the narrow framework of the programming, and until it decides to extrapolate beyond that, and start figuring things out for itself - it is simply not "Intelligent".